Group Project

Make an electronic edition of the letters of Julius J.B. Schrey.

• Encode the letters using DALF.
• Encode the introductory essays using TeiLite.
• Create XSL and CSS stylesheets for the vizualisation of the XML files.
• Generate an XHTML output using XSLT.
• Document your encoding practice.

Materials for download:

• The zipped file schrey.zip (password protected updated 14/04/2003)
• teixlite.clb (updated 04/03/2003)
• DALF.clb (updated 07/04/2003)
• DALF.dtd (updated 07/04/2003)

Documentation:

• Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden, DALF guidelines for the description and encoding of modern correspondence material Version 1.0 (discussion draft). [html] [pdf]
• TEILite. "TEI U5: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI." [html] [sgml] [xml] [pdf]

The group assignment and the documentation of the markup guidelines should be handed in no later than 20 June (12 a.m.) 2003 both on CD-Rom and per email <evanhoutte@kantl.be>. The CD-Rom should be sent to:

Edward Vanhoutte
CTB - Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie
Koningstraat 18
b-9000 Gent

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• Tim Berners-Lee (1999). Weaving the Web - The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. London: Orion Business Press / San Francisco: Harper.
• Tim Berners-Lee (2000). De wereld van het World Wide Web. Het oorspronkelijke ontwerp en de uiteindelijke bestemming van het World Wide Web, beschreven door zijn uitvinder. Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds.
• Hockey, Susan (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The journals Literary & Linguistic Computing, Computers and the Humanities, Markup Languages: Theory and Practice and Human IT.
• Further required and advised readings are posted on the course website.

• Lectures: 30h.
• Weekly preparation: 20h.
• Group assignment: 60h.
• Report: 10u.

Week 1 (17 February): Introduction Humanities Computing - History of the Internet - Hypertext.

• Know how to surf the internet, look and find information.
• Know how to email.

• Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1: "Why Electronic Texts?". p. 1-10.

• Vannevar Bush (1945). "As We May Think." The Atlantic Monthly July 1945, 176/1: 101-108.
• Jorge Luis Borges, 'The Library of Babel'. (translation or original).
• Marilyn Deegan (2000). Introduction. Frances Condron, Michael Fraser & Stuart Sutherland (eds.), Guide to Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000. Oxford: CTI.
• T. V. Raman (2001). "Welcome To The Universe Of Fancy Colored Paper!"
• W. Boyd Rayward (1994) "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." JASIS 45: 235-250.
• Edward Vanhoutte (2000). "A Linkemic Approach to Textual Variation. Theory and Practice of the Electronic-Critical Edition of Stijn Streuvels' De teleurgang van den Waterhoek." Human IT 1/2000: 103-138. (chapter 1: Theory)

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Week 2 (24 February): Document Analysis - Markup - Text Encoding - SGML/XML - DTD.

• Mail me (evanhoutte@kantl.be) a list of seven different internet browsers.
• Read Alan Morrison, Michael Popham & Karen Wikander (2000). Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. (Oxford: OTA): chapter 2: "Document Analysis."
• Choose a document and analyse it.

• Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 3: "Text Encoding". p. 24-48.

• XML definitions

• Alan Morrison, Michael Popham & Karen Wikander (2000). Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: OTA.
  • chapter 4: "Markup: The key to reusability"
  • chapter 5: "SGML/XML and TEI"

• Edward Vanhoutte (1998). "... en doende, denkt dan nog: SGML, TEI en editiewetenschap." Edward Vanhoutte & Dirk Van Hulle (eds.) Editiewetenschap <!--in de praktijk-->, Gent, 1998. 107-33.

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Week 3 (3 March): XML - TEI Hands-on - CSS - XSL

• P4 TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. A Gentle Introduction to XML. [html] [xml] [pdf]
• • For the Linguists: Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6: "Linguistic Analysis". p. 85-103.
  • For the Literaturists: Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 5: "Literary Analysis". p. 66-84.

• email.txt
• email.dtd
• email.xml
• email.css
• email.xsl
• poem.xml
• poem.xsl

• NoteTab Light
• teixlite.clb (updated 04/03/2003)
• TEI-emacs (a single archive of emacs, psgml, and a bunch of other useful stuff bundled together for installation on any Windows 32 bit system (30 Mb). Courtesy of the TEI Consortium)
• teixlite.dtd

NoteTab Light is a very complete plain text editor which allows you to create SGML, XML, (X)HTML, CSS etc. documents.

Download the software on your computer and unzip the file with an Unzip programma (e.g. WinZip). Double click the Setup.exe file and follow the install shield guidance. Once installed, run the programma and select View > Options > File Filters. Select "New", and add the next details

• Description: "xml"
• Wildcards: "*.xml"
• Click the OK button. Now you can save XML instances with the extension ".xml".

Repeat this operation for each file format you want to add to the software, e.g. CSS.

Download teixlite.clb and save (with .clb extension!) in NoteTab Light/Libraries. The Tab "teixlite" will now appear in the tab-bar at the bottom of the programme window. Click to activate the library which will appear in the left margin.

• TEILite. "TEI U5: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI." [html] [sgml] [xml] [pdf]
• Edward Vanhoutte (2000-2001). "It's all in the Head(er). From minimal to optimal use of the TEI Header."
• List of teilite tags.

1. Element names: use the exact element names. XML is case sensitive!
2. Empty elements: don't tag empty elements as e.g. <pb>, but as <pb />
3. Attributes: lower case.
4. Attribute values: always quoted. e.g. <pb id="1.01.002" n="2" />
5. Tag minimization: not allowed in XML. All tags which are opened must be closed and must nest correctly.

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Week 4 (10 March): XML - TEI Hands-on, Guest appearance of Vincent Neyt &Documentary "Into the Future".

• leeuw1.txt
• ELV.css
• ELV2.xml
• ELV.xsl

• nsgmls - parser
• Runsp2 interface
• teixlite.clb (updated 04/03/2003)

Download the binaries for Windows 95 en Windows NT and unzip and extract in a SP folder which you create. The setup creates three folders: bin, doc and pubtext. You can find the parser (nsgmls) in the bin folder.

Next, download the Runsp2 windows interface for nsgmls. Unzip the file in the bin folder of SP. By running runsp2.exe, runsp2 wil find nsgmls. Read runsp.txt carefully.

Copy the next files in the same bin folder:

• Catalog
• xml.dcl
• iso-lat1.ent
• iso-lat2.ent
• iso-num.ent
• iso-pub.ent

Specify where nsgmls can find the catalog file under Options in the toolbar of runsp2.

Specify where nsgmls can find xml.dcl under Options in the toolbar of runsp2.

Download and save teixlite.clb (with .clb extension!) in NoteTab Light/Libraries. The Tab "teixlite" will now appear in the tab-bar at the bottom of the programme window. Click to activate the library which will appear in the left margin.

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Week 5 (17 March) St. Patrick's Day: XML DALF Hands-on. Guest appearance of Ron Van den Branden.

• Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden, DALF guidelines for the description and encoding of modern correspondence material Version 1.0 (discussion draft). [html] [pdf]

• DALF.dtd (updated 07/04/2003)
• DALF.clb (updated 07/04/2003)
• schrey.zip (password protected & updated 07/04/2003)

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Week 6 (24 March): XML - DALF Hands-on - Group project

• All PCDATA inside <notes>, explanatory <p>s and metadata tags should be in Dutch.
• The value of the attribute "value" of <date> should have the form "yyyy-mm-dd"

• Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden, DALF guidelines for the description and encoding of modern correspondence material Version 1.0 (discussion draft). [html] [pdf]

• DALF.dtd (updated 07/04/2003)
• dalf.clb (updated 07/04/2003)
• schrey.zip (password protected & updated 07/04/2003)

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Week 7 (31 March): XML - DALF hands-on - Group project

Week 8 (21 April): No Class - Easter Monday

Week 9 (28 April): Digitization. What, why, how, OCR & imaging

• Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2: "Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts". p. 11-23.
• Stuart D. Lee (2001). Digital Imaging. A practical handbook. London: Facet Publishing. Chapter 3: "How do you digitize?" p. 35-75.

• Susan Hockey (1999). "Making Technology Work for Scholarship: Investing in the Data." Richard Ekman and Richard Quandt (eds.), Technology and Scholarly Communication. University of California Press. p. 17-36.
• Marilyn Deegan & Simon Tanner (2001). Digital Futures. Strategies for the information age. London: Library Association Publishing.
  • chapter 1: "Digital futures in current contexts": p. 6-15
  • chapter 2: "Why digitize?": p. 30-57
  • chapter 4: "The economic factors": p. 84-105
• Stuart D. Lee (1999). 'Scoping the Future of the University of Oxfordís Digital Library Collections. Appendix E: Digitization Methods.'
• Alan Morrison, Michael Popham & Karen Wikander (2000). Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. chapter 3: "Digitization - Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying." Oxford: OTA.
• Archival Digital Image Creation. UVA: Electronic Text Centre.
• The Digitisation Process. (Commissioned from HEDS by UKOLN on behalf of NOF in association with the People's Network).

• XSLT10.dtd

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Week 9bis (2 May): Guest Lecture: Martha Nell-Smith: "Dickinson, a User's Guide."

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